A10 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, November 20, 1996

Ex-forest minister

FRUSTRATED FOREST
industry representatives
packed the Bavarian Inn last
Thursday to voice their op-
position to the: provincial
govemment’s planned raid
on Forest Renewal B,C.’s
hank account.

FRBC regional director — |

Alan Parkinson was in Ter-
face to Speak at a chamber
of commerce luncheon and
answer questions, _

In his speech, Parkinson
outlined FRBC's goals and
successes in the northwest,
He pointed out that in the
Skeena-Butkley region next
year, the crown corporation
plans on increasing its
spending from this year’s
$31 million to $45 million.

Parkinson also defended
FREC’s board of directors
for allowing up to $400 mil-
lion to be diverted to the
provincial coffers.

“Td like to emphasize
that the board of directors is
made up of representatives
from communitics, labour,
First Nations, environmental
groups and government,’”
he said.

“They voted unanimously
in favour of the plan ..
which Icaves approximately
$750 million in our bank ac-
count, each and every year.
That is more than enough to
do the job we set cut to do.”

But many of those attend-
ing the luncheon were not
happy with the plan, secing
it as just another tax on the
already _financially-strapped
forest industry.

One-time Socred forests

minister Dave Parker was,

the most outspoken. ‘He
argued against both the
diversion of the money and
the existence of FRBC in
gencral.

“You say that you are

vents his spleen

FOREST RENEWAL. B.C. regional director Alan

Parkinson (standing) took some punishment at a
chamber luncheon last week for the decision to shift
monies from the crown corporation to the provincial

governmeni.

funded by stumpage rates,
that’s not true,’’ Parker said.
“You are funded by a sur-
charge that is equal to the
slumpage rate, and that pre-
vents us from investing
money back into the com-
munity.”?

Parker went on to say that
Forest Renewal was wasting
the forestry resource.

“‘FRBC is a farce of the
first order and it’s killing
the forest industry in BC,’
he said. ‘‘This is the
redistribution of stolen
wealth. Don’t think for a
second that it is anything

“etse.??

Parker was applauded for
his impassioned speech, and

Parkinson responded — by-.

saying that he could ap-
preciate the former minis-

Dave Parker

ter’s point, but he disagreed
with it.

Parkinson also promised
to bring the group's con-

.cems to the attention of the

board of directors at their
nexi monthly meeting.

FRBC eyes forest

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jobs for women

TERRACE IS one of several sites hosting
meetings to galher information thai could
result in more jobs for women in the forest
industry. .

The $130,000 province-wide project is
being conducted by the employment and in-
vestment ministry and is being financed by
Forest Renewai B.C.

Jim Beebe, a senior policy adviser wilh
the ministry, says the research is important
because the status of women in the industry
is largely unknown.

‘“*There’s not been much rescarch on
women in forestry,’’ he says. ‘‘The only
data we have is from 1983, based on data
from the *70s,”’

So the ministry picked four forest-based
communities for case studics — Williams
Lake, Cranbrook, Campbell River and here.

Using the information gathered from
those communities, the ministry will put to-
gether recommendations for future projects,

‘*We hope to use the research as a step-
ping stone to Future projects and FRBC
granis,’” says Beebe. ‘‘Our preliminary
studics show that there are opportunities
out there for women. Not so much with
chainsaws and axes, but in areas like
biological surveying, mapping, accounting
and silviculture.” .

A consulting company conducted random
phone surveys of 100 women from each of

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the towns, asking questions about their in-
volvement, or desired involvement: in the
forest industry. , —

Now key women in the communities are
getting a chance to voice their opinions at
facus groups this month.

“Focus groups is a little elaborale of a
term,” says Marylee Stephenson, the con-
sultant in charge of the project, ‘We aren’t
doing community consultation, {t’s morc
like small-scale interviews with women
picked from the area.’’ '

The focus-group women will get a second
opportunity in the spring, when more in- -

tensive workshops will be conducted. A
final report will likely become available
next April.

But not all women involved in’ the
forestry industry are enthusiastic aboul the
project.

“1 think the whole thing is a crock
myself,” says Brenda Campbell, the mem-
bership director for Canadian Women in
Timber. ‘As a women, I take real offence
when we have to be singled out for special
attention.” :

Campbell says that the goal should be to

gel more people warking in the woods, and
Not to spend money researching women.

‘It’s FRBC money that’s being wasted,”
she says. ‘‘Heck, we'd like to see more
men getting paycheques toc.”

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